C# Contracts in the UK excluding London

C#
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for C# skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited C# over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 51 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 -13 +7
Contract jobs citing C# 651 1,003 1,644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.14% 4.19% 5.32%
As % of the Programming Languages category 13.41% 14.44% 18.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 691 1,157
10th Percentile £313 £350 £362
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +11.52%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £535
90th Percentile £619 £675 £606
UK median daily rate £570 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -0.87% +6.98% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 99 74
10th Percentile £46.25 £47.45 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £58.03 £41.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.03
Median % change year-on-year - +22.58% +17.84%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £70.30 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £51.66
% change year-on-year - +25.82% +14.81%

All Programming Languages
UK excluding London

C# is in the Programming Languages category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 4,854 6,946 8,924
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.45% 29.02% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 4,958 6,218
10th Percentile £318 £347 £332
25th Percentile £400 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £650 £678 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 341 337
10th Percentile £37.63 £22.50 £17.15
25th Percentile £51.88 £49.68 £26.98
Median hourly rate £62.50 £60.70 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.97% +22.63% +16.47%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +2.67% +20.00% +13.64%

C#
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing C# as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing C# in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for C# in the UK excluding London

C#
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C# within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +6 173 £463 -2.63% 313
South East -10 152 £500 -4.76% 257
North West -5 99 £488 +2.63% 189
South West -10 97 £450 -14.29% 150
Midlands -6 85 £489 +15.06% 285
East of England +6 82 £465 +1.92% 96
West Midlands -6 48 £525 +5.00% 175
Yorkshire +14 46 £425 -10.53% 90
Scotland -21 46 £413 -13.16% 99
East Midlands -3 37 £422 +11.05% 110
North East +25 28 £415 -10.27% 37
Wales -1 12 £394 -7.35% 41
Northern Ireland +9 5 £575 +43.75% 22
C#
UK

C#
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.23%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (1.38%) CMS
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) Umbraco
5 6 (0.92%) Confluence
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.77%) IIS
7 2 (0.31%) Jadu
7 2 (0.31%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.15%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.15%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.15%) NServiceBus
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.15%) Site Server
8 1 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 109 (16.74%) Chatbot
2 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.15%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (1.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.23%) Maximo
3 4 (0.61%) LabWindows
4 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.15%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 218 (33.49%) Azure
2 93 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 50 (7.68%) Power Platform
4 49 (7.53%) AWS
5 35 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 29 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.15%) Serverless
8 26 (3.99%) Power Automate
9 25 (3.84%) Azure Monitor
10 24 (3.69%) Azure Storage
11 21 (3.23%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
13 18 (2.76%) PowerApps
14 17 (2.61%) Azure Functions
15 16 (2.46%) PaaS
16 13 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (1.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 11 (1.69%) Azure AKS
19 10 (1.54%) Azure API Management
19 10 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (5.99%) Modbus
2 38 (5.84%) RS-422
2 38 (5.84%) RS-485
3 26 (3.99%) DHCP
3 26 (3.99%) DNS
4 22 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 20 (3.07%) Firewall
6 11 (1.69%) Ethernet
7 6 (0.92%) FTP
7 6 (0.92%) HTTP
7 6 (0.92%) Intranet
8 5 (0.77%) RS-232
9 4 (0.61%) Wireless
10 3 (0.46%) Internet
10 3 (0.46%) Network Security
10 3 (0.46%) RTSP
10 3 (0.46%) VPN
11 2 (0.31%) MQTT
11 2 (0.31%) SAN
12 1 (0.15%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (16.59%) SQL Server
2 19 (2.92%) Power BI
3 15 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 14 (2.15%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
5 13 (2.00%) MySQL
5 13 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.92%) Redis
10 5 (0.77%) Big Data
10 5 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.77%) GIS
10 5 (0.77%) SQLite
11 4 (0.61%) Biml
11 4 (0.61%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.46%) Geospatial Data
12 3 (0.46%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 73 (11.21%) Git
2 54 (8.29%) Visual Studio
3 31 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 27 (4.15%) Selenium
5 24 (3.69%) JIRA
6 11 (1.69%) Eclipse
6 11 (1.69%) TeamCity
7 9 (1.38%) NUnit
7 9 (1.38%) SpecFlow
7 9 (1.38%) WebDriver
8 8 (1.23%) Mercurial
8 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (1.08%) Bitbucket
9 7 (1.08%) Octopus Deploy
9 7 (1.08%) Subversion
10 6 (0.92%) Postman
11 5 (0.77%) Checkstyle
11 5 (0.77%) GitLab
11 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 116 (17.82%) Social Skills
2 45 (6.91%) Finance
3 44 (6.76%) Electronics
4 36 (5.53%) Public Sector
5 24 (3.69%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.84%) Military
8 8 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (1.08%) Multimedia
9 7 (1.08%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.92%) Aviation
10 6 (0.92%) Law
11 5 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.77%) Games
11 5 (0.77%) Marketing
11 5 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.61%) Automotive
12 4 (0.61%) Banking
13 3 (0.46%) Legal
Job Titles
1 369 (56.68%) Developer
2 143 (21.97%) Software Developer
3 94 (14.44%) .NET Developer
4 87 (13.36%) Software Engineer
5 48 (7.37%) C# Developer
6 43 (6.61%) C++ Software Engineer
7 41 (6.30%) Senior
8 30 (4.61%) Lead
9 27 (4.15%) Full Stack Developer
10 23 (3.53%) Senior Developer
11 21 (3.23%) C# Software Engineer
12 20 (3.07%) Architect
12 20 (3.07%) Tester
13 18 (2.76%) Test Engineer
14 17 (2.61%) Azure Developer
15 16 (2.46%) Applications Developer
15 16 (2.46%) C# .NET Developer
16 15 (2.30%) Active Directory Support
16 15 (2.30%) Azure Specialist
17 14 (2.15%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (41.32%) .NET
2 158 (24.27%) HTML
3 65 (9.98%) ASP.NET
4 56 (8.60%) .NET Framework
4 56 (8.60%) AngularJS
5 52 (7.99%) React
6 48 (7.37%) .NET Core
7 46 (7.07%) CSS
8 34 (5.22%) XML
9 32 (4.92%) RESTful
10 31 (4.76%) JSON
11 30 (4.61%) REST
12 29 (4.45%) Web Services
13 26 (3.99%) Blazor
14 23 (3.53%) Entity Framework
15 20 (3.07%) ARM Templates
15 20 (3.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 18 (2.76%) SOAP
17 16 (2.46%) Node.js
18 14 (2.15%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 50 (7.68%) Self-Motivation
2 18 (2.76%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.46%) PKI
4 13 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 11 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.38%) CCTV
7 7 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 7 (1.08%) Mobile App
8 6 (0.92%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (0.92%) IoT
9 5 (0.77%) Client/Server
9 5 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (0.77%) Social Media
10 4 (0.61%) Cloud Native
10 4 (0.61%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.61%) Low-Code
10 4 (0.61%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (11.83%) Windows
2 60 (9.22%) Linux
3 26 (3.99%) Windows Server
4 15 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.23%) Unix
6 7 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (0.92%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.77%) Android
8 5 (0.77%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.31%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (36.10%) Software Engineering
2 221 (33.95%) Agile
3 193 (29.65%) DevOps
4 122 (18.74%) Artificial Intelligence
5 120 (18.43%) Code Quality
6 109 (16.74%) Conversational UI
7 82 (12.60%) CI/CD
8 78 (11.98%) TDD
9 77 (11.83%) Test Automation
10 69 (10.60%) Continuous Integration
11 66 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
12 64 (9.83%) Full Stack Development
12 64 (9.83%) Unit Testing
13 61 (9.37%) Scrum
14 54 (8.29%) Software Testing
15 52 (7.99%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (7.68%) OO
17 48 (7.37%) MVC
18 45 (6.91%) Microservices
19 44 (6.76%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 238 (36.56%) JavaScript
1 238 (36.56%) SQL
2 175 (26.88%) Python
3 94 (14.44%) C++
4 63 (9.68%) C
5 62 (9.52%) Java
6 47 (7.22%) PowerShell
7 34 (5.22%) TypeScript
8 24 (3.69%) Bicep
9 21 (3.23%) VBScript
10 17 (2.61%) VB
11 13 (2.00%) VB.NET
12 12 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.54%) PHP
14 8 (1.23%) Bash
14 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
15 7 (1.08%) VBA
16 5 (0.77%) Ruby
16 5 (0.77%) X++
17 4 (0.61%) F#
Qualifications
1 161 (24.73%) Degree
2 112 (17.20%) Security Cleared
3 77 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 47 (7.22%) DV Cleared
5 20 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (2.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 9 (1.38%) Master's Degree
8 7 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (0.77%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.46%) HNC
10 3 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.31%) HND
11 2 (0.31%) ISEB
11 2 (0.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.31%) PhD
12 1 (0.15%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (4.92%) QA
2 9 (1.38%) NIST
3 8 (1.23%) ISO 9001
3 8 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (0.46%) GDPR
5 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.31%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (3.07%) Active Directory
1 20 (3.07%) Virtual Machines
2 16 (2.46%) Docker
2 16 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 13 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.08%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.46%) VirtualBox
7 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (5.22%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.99%) SCCM
3 17 (2.61%) WSUS
4 16 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (2.46%) SCOM
4 16 (2.46%) Terraform
5 15 (2.30%) Ansible
6 7 (1.08%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.15%) Grafana
9 1 (0.15%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (16.59%) PayPal
2 104 (15.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (2.30%) Oracle
4 13 (2.00%) VMware
5 10 (1.54%) SAP
6 9 (1.38%) Informatica
7 7 (1.08%) Veeam
7 7 (1.08%) Wind River
7 7 (1.08%) Xamarin
8 6 (0.92%) AVEVA
9 5 (0.77%) Talend
10 4 (0.61%) Sitecore
11 3 (0.46%) Atlassian
11 3 (0.46%) IBM
11 3 (0.46%) Nintex
11 3 (0.46%) NVIDIA
11 3 (0.46%) Pega
11 3 (0.46%) Salesforce
12 2 (0.31%) Google
12 2 (0.31%) OutSystems